Questions tagged [ntfs]
A Microsoft file system, used in Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
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How do I share a NTFS partition over LAN?
I've set up samba and everything works whenever I share folders that are in my /home directory, but when I try sharing an entire NTFS partition I get access denied on my windows 10 machine. I've tried ...
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Nonresponsive while copying files
I just switched from Win8 to Ubuntu 13.04 as my sole OS and it's pretty nice overall. But as the last time I tried using Linux I see I still have problems simply moving large files around and ...
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Misused mke2fs and cannot boot into system
I installed Ubuntu with WUBI in Windows 7 64bit, and I had installed Mandriva 2011 with a disk. I tried to learn Linux with Ubuntu and misused mke2fs; after I reboot my computer, Windows 7 and Ubuntu ...
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Unknown file system unnsupported drive / partition?
I have a 1TB HDD that I use on Windows for file storage, and I would like to share this storage between Windows and Ubuntu (dual boot).
But I can't seem to be able to mount this drive in Ubuntu. I can ...
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Mount a subdirectory from an already mounted drive with fstab
I have mounted an external NTFS HD at startup and want to bind a subdirectory to my ~/Documents folder. For this, I added the entries below to fstab, based on this answer:
# Local HD Mounts
UUID=...
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rsync from NTFS to ext4
I made a backup of a folder on an external NTFS drive on an ext4 folder and it went fine. The problem I have now is that rsync ignores already existing (and unchanged) files and syncs everything even ...
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There were no valid user or no valid group when I try to mount NTFS partition with ntfs-3g usermap
I want to mount a NTFS external drive that must have read and write access for my user profile. So following the NTFS-3G guide, to generate the mapping file, I have tried this:
sudo ntfsusermap /dev/...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Cannot connect to Windows shared network folder
I've been attempted to hook up some kind of shared folder between my Ubuntu VM and Windows 7 Host, Guest Additions Shared Folder is absolute garbage, constantly having file in use issues / text file ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Can't Mount Devices by Double Click on File Manager If They Are Defined in `fstab`
I have few HD with NTFS on my computer.
Usually I can see those Hard Drives as devices in the File Manager home (computer:///).
By double clicking them they are mounted.
I wanted to make sure when ...
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Force mount NTFS partition (damaged blocks)
Apparently my hard disk has decided to get damaged and my Windows NTFS partition is not accessible. I have a dual boot, but the Windows one would not initialise (maybe not solvable).
I will more ...
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When USB drive inserted, calling script once with knowledge of mount point
Using lubuntu 16.04.
In short, I would like to have a (preferably bash) script called once upon insertion of a USB drive, with the script having access to the path name of the mount point. I have ...
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mount.ntfs slowing computer without taking up CPU , showing "disk sleep"
I have two NTFS partitions mounted in my filesystem. One of them hosts my projects, so it is very important.
Every so often, my computer gets sluggish, sometimes to the point of almost freezing up. I ...
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Windows 10 Dual Boot shared NTFS partition Read Only, Fast Shutdown Disabled
This seems like a really common question here, but I think some things changed for it in Ubuntu 18.04...
So I started with a completely blank 1TB SSD yesterday, installed windows first, then created ...
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Mounting .img-file early in boot process
I have a rather unusual scenario. There is a ntfs-harddrive in my computer which I would like to mount, which isn't difficult on its own.
But there is an .img-file on said harddrive which I would ...
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Caddy HDD cannot be mounted after restart
I have two laptops. The previous one (HP G42, 2011) had Windows 8 + Ubuntu 16.04. A fewer driver. Probably two of them
The new one (HP Probook 450 G4) has 240 GB SSD + 1TB of HDD replacing my CD ...
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Can I setup two NTFS disks as RAID-1 in Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm planning to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to replace Windows-7 on my desktop.
Currently, my PC has an SSD (for OS) and two HDDs configured as RAID-1 (mirrored, NTFS). I'll reformat SSD to install ...
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unable to delete .Trash on external drive (Ubuntu 16.04)
I am unable to remove my files from .Trash/ folder on my external hard drive.
The file system is NTFS. Files are not in use by any process, therefore might not be locked.
Empty Trash menu entry on ...
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Failure in moving files in Linux
I was moving a bunch of large files from my home directory to an external HDD. Suddenly the GUI crashed and I had no choice but to hard reset the computer. After booting up I found out that almost ...
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apt-mirror: can't create /media/usb/apt-mirror/mirror directory at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 342 - onto USB drive
This question is related to this:
apt-mirror: can't create /dir:/mirror directory at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 342 But the answer there did not help, because the setup is a bit different.
I need ...
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Mount writable NTFS disk in Ubuntu Core
I have recently installed Ubuntu Core on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the official images provided by Canonical. I have a USB hard drive connected to the Raspberry Pi. This drive is formatted as NTFS. In ...
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Cannot remove the file - "No such file or directory"
Yesterday I found this file in my git repo and I can't get rid of it no matter how hard I try.
The file is located on a NTFS disk.
sebastian@protean /media/sebastian/DATA/04 - PROJECTS/02 - MANAGER/...
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Cannot mount windows ntfs drive on Ubuntu. Error Fuse not found
I recently updated the kernel to 4.10.3 and since then I have not been able to mount windows ntfs drives. It was working perfectly fine in my old kernel 4.4.0-64.
I have disabled fast-boot on ...
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Repartitioned USB drive (FAT32 to NTFS), now cannot mount/access from command line
I needed to format and repartition my USB drive from FAT32 to NTFS in order to install Node.js live-server (cf. npm live-server install: symlink error (even when running as root/admin)). After ...
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No Windows partition available after installing Ubuntu 14 LTS
After an upgrade of Ubuntu from 12 LTS to 14 LTS version GRUB failed to boot.
With a boot repair disk ISO on my USB pen drive I found the Windows partition still exists and could be mounted, but the ...
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Synapse unable to search mounted partition
I have an NTFS partition I use for storage, and I don't manage to have synapse searching into it.
For the moment, I have followed this advice, basically removing /media from PRUNEPATHS and running ...
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NTFS formatted hard disk's partitions not visible in Windows. Although they are visible in Linux
I have two hard disks. HD1 has two partitions - a NTFS partitions with windows 8.1 and an ext3 with Ubuntu 14.04. HD2 has 4 NTFS partitions. Both of the disks (all partitions) are visible on Ubuntu 14....
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All created files on a NTFS partition with User Mapping defaults to root owner
I've just migrated to Ubuntu from another distribution, and where previously my NTFS partitions worked with the addition of a User Mapping file, now all the newly created files will have the owner set ...
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Is a block size of 4 MiB on a partition of 99.06 GiB too big?
Its a new laptop I'm using, and currently installing Ubuntu 13.10
I am having to move 3 NTFS partitions to right, grow two of them to 99 GiB, and shrink one of them to 55.46 GiB.
So to do this ...
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Recovering a file after having formatted from NTFS to EXT4
I used to have windows 7 but I've recently formatted my hard drive to install kubuntu and I've just realized that I forgot to backup a hidden .dat file which defines my bitcoin wallet. Is it possible ...
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How to make it impossible to mount an ntfs partition?
I have this external HDD, which has two partitions: one ext4 and one ntfs. However, when I connect it to some devices, the ntfs-3g driver goes crazy and stays in a loop of mounting->unmounting->...
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does big_writes option in mount command can cause file corruption?
I've been transferring huge files about 5 gb from ext4 to ntfs and I have noticed the slow write speed about 1.5 to 2 MBps sometimes about 900 KBps. Now I've found out that adding "big_writes" option ...
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Install a software throe wine on ntfs partition
I have a question I want to install windows software, but I do not have enough space on ext4 partition, so if I install the software on ntfs directory will the software run as it would run on ext/home ...
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ubuntu 12.10 ntfs Error splicing file: Value too large for defined data type
When files are copied from Windows 7/8 NTFS partition, it throws the following error on some files.
"Error splicing file: Value too large for defined data type"
These files are not random. The copy ...
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How to automount NTFS usb sticks on Xubuntu 12.10?
I'm running the Xubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo T520 laptop.
If I plug a FAT formatted usb stick, it's mounted automatically, but if I plug in a NTFS formatted one, I have to mount it manually.
How to ...
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Can´t mount win8 partition in Ubuntu 12.04
After installing Win8 and then used WIMI to install Ubuntu. The operative systems work fine, now to my trouble.
I Can´t mount win8 partition in Ubuntu 12.04.
Is this a known error?
How can I fix ...
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ntfs error after installing ubuntu 12.04
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my HD, where windows7 is my old OS..I have set up a 50gb partition for installing Ubuntu. The partition is NTFS format. After installation Ubuntu is starting well, but ...
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Copying to/from NTFS partitions very slow
My whole system slows down when I copy files between an NTFS drive to my local home directory.
This is a new 12.04 installation with the latests 12.8 AMD ATI driver.
Using Gnome-Shell or Unity does ...
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Mounting encrypted file system on Windows
Is there a way to mount (read/write) an encrypted file system on Windows? By "encrypted" I mean whatever it is that Ubuntu does to encrypt a file system when you choose that option during formatting. ...
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NTFS partition not clearly unmounted PLEASE HELP
When ubuntu boots, I get this error:
The NTFS partition was not cleanly unmounted. This probably indicates that the system was not shut down properly. Please run chkdsk /r from Windows; once ...
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How can I mount ntfs partition from nautilus with exec permission?
I am looking for a feature similar to that existed in Earlier Ubuntu releases (until Ubuntu Lucid AFAIK).
The feature was, When I click on the drive icon on the left side bar of nautilus, NTFS drives ...
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NTFS volume recognised as "Unallocated Space" but works with Windows
Moving to Ubuntu, I have a drive with windows on a drive with Ubuntu on and 4 other ntfs drives
3 of which appear fine in both systems
1 however works fine on windows (single ntfs volume) but in ...
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External Drive DIsk is unrecognised
after reading askubuntu as a guest for some time I decided to be an active part of the community posting here my first question.
I bought an HDD of 2TB some months ago. It worked ok, but when I was ...
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How can I assign space from a logical partition to a primary one (to resize the primary)
I have the following situation:
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I want to resize the ntfs partition. Specifically I want to add it 15 GB.
What is the best sequence of steps to do?
The output from sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda and ...
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mount.ntfs takes 90% of CPU
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Samsung NC10 laptop with 2 GB RAM using WUBI.
When I try to install something or to do something with files, the mount.ntfs takes 90% of CPU. Also I have an issue that ...
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the folder content could not be displayed input/output error
I'm new to Linux and I have Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS) (Budgie version: 10.6.1) (OS Type: 64-bit)
I have this ntfs type HDD:
I checked its file system:
I saw that it's not damaged:
but when ...
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rm -rf returning "rm: cannot remove 'PATH': Directory not empty"
I'm trying to delete a folder on an NTFS drive mounted to /media/soup/ntfs_d/ but it's resulting in a some strange behavior.
For context, a while ago I deleted some files via Dolphin which apparently ...
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How to edit files on other NTFS partitions
So I just dual boot the latest version of Ubuntu 23.04 with Windows 10
And I have a total of 4 partitions 1 for Windows 2 other and 1 for Ubuntu I can't edit files on the two other 2 partitions like ...
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How to reliably mount a NTFS volume with read/write access
This is a dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu system. I created a link to my Windows Documents folder in my linux home folder so that all my files are easily accessible in both systems, saving duplication. ...
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NTFS filesystem partition detected as unknown on Linux after HDD cloning
I have a problem with one of my partition.
I have cloned my HDD with a bigger one to have more space. Now Ubuntu is working perfectly but my second partition (/dev/sda4) which I know is a NTFS ...
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External drive: All created files are owned by root
I have an external USB 3.0 disk which I mount as:
sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,user,umask=003,o+r,gid=science /dev/sda1 /media/external
There are 2 problems, which I am not sure how to solve:
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